The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, point out which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain address is the easiest way to point it to their system and all its sub-records will be managed on their end. This includes A (the IP address of the server/website), MX (mail server), TXT (free text), SRV (services), CNAME (forwarding), etcetera, so if you need to change some of these records, you'll be able to do it using their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain name point out the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the Internet domain you want to reach. In this way the site you'll see is going to be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There is no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so which one a hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Website Hosting

If you register a domain name in a website hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to take care of its name servers easily. This is done via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with just a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even several domain addresses at the same time, which could save you considerable time and efforts in case you have a huge number of domain addresses you want to forward to an alternative provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. Furthermore we allow you to set up private name servers for every single domain registered with our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to forward any other domain to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for example, all domains included in the account on our end can use these name servers.